lzbench v2.3

• improvement: Reorganized compressor alias groups by type — ALL is now a composite of LZ /
  SYMMETRIC / MISC; BWT/PPM codecs (bsc, bzip2, bzip3, ppmd8) moved to SYMMETRIC,
  and kanzi is split by per-level algorithm between LZ and SYMMETRIC
• improvement: Added the FASTEST alias (every ALL compressor at only its fastest level) and a
  new SLOW alias for very slow compressors (glza)
• improvement: CUDA codecs are now disabled by default and built only with ENABLE_CUDA=1
• improvement: BSC now handles blocks larger than its input limit by splitting them into chunks
  (thanks to @flanglet); the codec max input size is a codec property used when sizing buffers
• improvement: added -mno-strict-align build flag and SNAPPY_HAVE_RVV macro for RISC-V
  (thanks to @anthony-zy); various platform fixes for 32-bit x86 (lzham), 32-bit ARM,
  and Windows file size handling
• fix: account for codec chunk split buffer overhead when allocating the compression buffer
• added aceapex 1.0 (thanks to @yasha1971-coder)
• added aceapex_cuda 0.9 — optional CUDA decoder for the aceapex format (thanks to @yasha1971-coder)
• added memlz 0.2 beta (thanks to @rrrlasse)
• added skim 0.1.0 (thanks to @VantorreWannes)
• added zxc 0.11.0 (thanks to @hellobertrand)
• updated brotli to 1.2.0 (thanks to @data-man)
• updated bzip3 to v1.5.3 (thanks to @inikep)
• updated glza to v0.12 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated kanzi to 2.5.3 (thanks to @flanglet)
• updated libbsc to v3.3.12 (thanks to @inikep)
• updated libdeflate to v1.25 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated lzav to 5.8 (thanks to @avaneev)
• updated lzlib to 1.16 (thanks to @inikep)
• updated lzma to 26.01 (thanks to @inikep)
• updated ppmd8 to 26.01 (thanks to @inikep)
• updated quicklz to 1.5.1 beta 7 (thanks to @inikep)
• updated slz to 1.2.2 (thanks to @inikep)
• updated tamp to 2.2.4 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated xz to 5.8.3 (thanks to @inikep)
• updated zlib to 1.3.2 (thanks to @inikep)
• updated zlib-ng to 2.3.3 (thanks to @inikep)

lzbench v2.2

Changes:

• improvement: Automatic chunk size splitting for multi-threading (-T) when -b is not specified
• improvement: Added the -I# option, which enables compression using # internal (built-in) threads
  when supported. Currently available for the following compressors: bsc, fast-lzma2,
  kanzi, lzham, lzma, xz, and zstd.
• added zpaq v7.15 (thanks to @rsreds)
• updated GLZA to v0.11.8 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated bzip3 to v1.5.2 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated libdeflate to v1.24 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated snappy to v1.2.2 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated xz to v5.8.1 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated kanzi to 2.4.0 (thanks to @flanglet)
• updated libbsc to v3.3.9 (thanks to @IlyaGrebnov) and later to v3.3.11 (thanks to @vectorsss)
• updated density to v0.16.6 (Rust based) (thanks to @g1mv)
• updated zlib-ng to 2.2.5
• updated lzma and ppmd8 (no changes for ppmd8) to 25.01 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated tamp to v1.10.0

lzbench v2.1

Changes:

• Added the -T parameter, which enables multi-threaded compression using an external thread
  pool implemented in lzbench. The input data is split into N blocks (with block size specified
  by the -b option) and each block is compressed independently using T threads. Since the blocks
  are processed independently, this may slightly reduce the compression ratio. This option also
  significantly increases memory usage, as each compressor instance is allocated T times.
• added bzip3 1.5.1
• updated zstd to 1.5.7 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated lzav 4.22 (thanks to @avaneev)
• fixed: lzma 24.09 was using 2 threads for level 5 and higher (a bug introduced in v2.0)
• removed max_block_size parameter and blosclz, shrinker, xpack codecs
• removed pithy (issues with incompressible data), Nakamichi Okamigan
• improvement: report compiler version (thanks to @danfe)
• improvement: reorganization of lzbench directories
• improvement: changed interface of compression and decompression functions (thanks to @tansy)

lzbench v2.0.1

Changes:

• updated libbsc to v3.3.5 (thanks to @IlyaGrebnov)
• fixed: set kanzi to use a single thread instead of half of available threads in lzbench v2.0 (thanks to @tansy)
• fixed: Piping through tee doesn't work (issue #138)
• improvement: Return exit code > 0 to shell in case of failure of one of codecs

lzbench v2.0

Changes:

• added zlib-ng 2.2.3 (thanks to @data-man)
• added lizard 2.1
• added LZAV 4.5 (thanks to @jibsen)
• added libbsc v3.3.4 (thanks to @stefanrua)
• added ppmd8 based on 7-zip 24.09 (thanks to @pps83)
• added kanzi v2.3 (thanks to @flanglet)
• added tamp v1.3.1 (thanks to @BrianPugh)
• updated nvcomp to 2.2.0 (the last open source version)
• updated slz to 1.2.1
• updated snappy to 1.2.1
• updated brotli to 1.1.0
• updated blosclz to 2.5.1 (from c-blosc-1.21.6)
• updated lzlib to 1.15
• updated xz to v5.6.3
• updated zlib to 1.3.1 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated lzma to 24.09
• updated libdeflate to v1.23 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated zstd to 1.5.6
• updated lz4 to 1.10.0 (thanks to @ChristianSchindler)

lzbench v1.9

Changes:

• added cpuid to title screen (thanks to @tansy)
• added support for CUDA and nvcomp (thanks to @fwyzard)
• updated Snappy to 1.1.10 (thanks to @ChristianSchindler)
• updated lzlib-1.13 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated zstd to 1.5.0 (thanks to @data-man) and later to 1.5.5 (thanks to @jinfeihan57)
• updated lz4 to 1.9.3 (thanks to @jinfeihan57)
• updated fastlz to 0.5.0 (thanks to @jinfeihan57)
• updated xz to 5.2.5 (thanks to @jinfeihan57)
• updated snappy to 2020-07-11 (4dd277f) (thanks to @jinfeihan57)
• updated libdeflate to v1.6 (thanks to @jinfeihan57) and later to v1.9 (thanks to @tansy)
• updated Brotli to 1.0.9 (thanks to @data-man)

lzbench v1.8.1

Changes:

• fixed linking issues with glza (multiple definition of ###)
• update BriefLZ to 1.3.0 (thanks to @jibsen)
• update libslz to 1.2.0 (thanks to Willy Tarreau)
• update zstd to 1.4.5 (thanks to @jinfeihan57)

lzbench v1.8

Changes:

• fixed gcc-9 and clang-9 compilation issues
• default linking for Linux is dynamic and static for Windows (can be changed with make BUILD_STATIC=0/1)
• added fast-lzma2 1.0.1
• added bzip2 1.0.8 (thanks to @tansy)
• blosclz updated to 2.0.0
• libdeflate updated to v1.3
• liblzg updated to 1.0.10
• lzlib updated to 1.11
• lzma updated to 19.00
• lzo updated to 2.10
• lzsse updated to 2019-04-18 (1847c3e827)
• snappy updated to 2019-09-30 (e9e11b84e6)
• xz updated to v5.2.4
• zling updated to 2018-10-12

lzbench v1.7.4

Changes:

• brieflz updated to 1.2.0 (thanks to @jibsen)
• brotli updated to 2019-10-01 (c435f06675)
• density updated to 0.14.2 (thanks to @morotti)
• lz4 updated to v1.9.2
• zstd updated to v1.4.3

lzbench v1.7.3

Changes: (done by @data-man)

• brotli updated to 2017-12-12
• lz4 updated to v1.8.0
• zstd updated to v1.3.3
• added zstd compressor with long distance matcher: zstdLDM, zstd22LDM, zstd24LDM